From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QCHNL-0004wU-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:18:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C40D71C01D; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E8E1C01D for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so79169wyi.40 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:16:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=5/mEer2Qy+OWsByUaN92xXKl8T6t+nUuhZGkjfTHMdo=; b=nbkTk/0QujGLsJ7K5jJQYoKaZ4DtQjLzGU1lC0VyPBY5tmct0dMXtrIHnYiAPI9M1O 0sGvUfFQqyIGxZmDD4hpTL+FiO7gToE4odJYuTIWiHLKpEPn1PtQXiLVFLbKLRLAi5XF YDgJEscz+V9enTvKjMSvDU3+AhE4+dWXQKmEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dzFo6q3we/iZME4g9qV94FIz6gOwPDvM9FyZnfajTRu0uaK3VDoZxzz7Wa7wtF0dob R4+aT1dkqsmPGsNM21Uk1S+zi2NJ3rAFiw1KAOmjdSe7LBbW74zFcv/Zk0YkTf4oePup 6WUWXpYlGZRQVT/kXa59I5E3Pxr5DjgYGuj0s= Received: by 10.227.177.13 with SMTP id bg13mr6650681wbb.92.1303244163038; Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-19-231.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.19.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u9sm149444wbg.34.2011.04.19.13.16.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:16:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please! Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:15:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.38-ck; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Neil Bothwick References: <20110418162145.GA4024@acm.acm> <4DADA963.8040409@gmail.com> <20110419205946.3fd6a1ba@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110419205946.3fd6a1ba@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201104192215.34947.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e39b0324f7c2acce914c5546c803c46e Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad > > >> idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it > > >> changes. > > > > > > But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, > > > because it doesn't attempt to emerge the package that failed. As a > > > test it fails. > > > > Then I guess your mileage may vary then. > > Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will give > exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks clear across the universe can do -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com